Imperfect transparency and camouflage in glass frogs.

ABSTRACT: Camouflage patterns prevent detection and/or recognition by matching the background, disrupting edges, or mimicking particular background features. In variable habitats, however, a single pattern cannot match all available sites all of the time, and efficacy may therefore be reduced. Active color change provides an alternative where coloration can be altered to match local conditions, but again efficacy may be limited by the speed of change and range of patterns available. Transparency, on the other hand, creates high-fidelity camouflage that changes instantaneously to match any substrate but is potentially compromised in terrestrial environments where image distortion may be more obvious than in water. Glass frogs are one example of terrestrial transparency and are well known for their tr

SUBMITTER: Barnett JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7293656 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature